Halloween - Patrick Bateman and Larry Bird

 Our ruppies with their new Glowdoggie collars so that I can actually see them in the early morning @ the Park during winter.

This is what they looked like after going outside during Sandy.

 This is what we did during the Hurricane. 

 This is also what we did during the Hurricane....

 This is homemade Calimari.  One of the perks of living in a place like NYC is that you walk into the grocery store 2 mins away and ask for their freshest squid.

 Chocolate chip hazelnut cookies.  Don't judge me.  I run a lot.

 Some of the Park damage.

Monday, November 5th, 2012
Central Park East (and other places) - 6:30ish am

WE'RE BAAAAAACK!!!   I've posted a snapshot of what we've been doing since we last really spoke. 

Good morning!  They say you never know what you've got until it's gone.  Well, in this case I knew exactly what I had in the Park.  I knew that in my eyes this city was essentially unlivable without the Park.

7 days without the Park.  7.

Terrible.

I don't mean to sound melodramatic - people lost their lives & their homes.  Sad sad sad - but if you want to read about that, go read the newspapers - not my blog :)

Saturday morning the Park opened up for the first time since Sandy.  I was itching to be back.  I spent more days than I care to cooped up in the gym riding a stationary bike watching the news.  I treated the Park this weekend to 16 odd miles.  3 miles walking with the ruppies, then ran 7 miles later that day, then ran 6 miles on Sunday.  It was a strange weekend - a mixture of controversy.  Anger about the canceling of the marathon.  Anger about the anger of the canceling of the marathon.  Then a really beautiful response by runners.  A big group ran it anyway.  Another huge group spent their Sunday/Saturday night collecting goods to donate to some of the hardest hit parts of Staten Island.  Running in the Park this weekend was unlike anything I've ever experienced.  People with their marathon shirts on, running their 26.2.  Groups of folks from other countries who flew in for the marathon running their 26.2 together. Volunteers handing out water.  Fans.  Cheering.  Little kids high-fiving.  It was a great day for the sport of running I think.  Very inspiring.  All this emotion was wrapped up in an absolutely incredible 2 days of weather.  Quintessential Fall days.  Cold and crisp, crunchy leaves, gorgeous colors, big blue skies with lots of white, fluffy clouds.  

Most of lower Manhattan now has power.  Things are getting better little by little. 

It's wonderful to have things be getting back to normal.  I'm happy to be back.  See my video below - the ruppies are really happy to be back!
http://youtu.be/t-jKNxuAfII

Carpe diem.

J